Posted on 10/14/2008 5:54:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavor, Chinese media said.
In a bizarre coincidence, 61 wedding guests were taken to hospital with similar symptoms a day earlier after a duck-and-donkey-meat banquet in northwest China.
In the rust remover case, the bride's proud father invited 170 friends and relatives to the wedding banquet at a village in northern Hebei province on Friday, the night before the nuptials, the Beijing News said.
"All food was stewed in a big pot but after dinner started, all of them felt the taste was too bland," the newspaper said.
Someone added what he or she thought was salt -- several times. An hour later, the guests were being rushed to hospital.
"When I arrived at the hospital, the observation room was packed with people vomiting, with stomach pains and with diarrhea," a doctor was quoted as saying.
The symptoms were short-lived and all the victims were released by the next day.
A day earlier, 61 wedding guests suffered food poisoning at a banquet in impoverished Gansu province, local authorities said.
"Currently, 17 people have been discharged but 44 are still in the hospital. No one has died," Xinhua news agency quoted an official as saying.
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Wonder whether they got that idea from watching "Iron Chef"...
What is it with the Chinese? They will put absolutely anything into their food.
Sure makes you wonder how it’s possible for the chinese to have a life expectancy only a few years shorter than folks in the USA. (71 vs. 77 or so).
What was “powdered rust remover” doing in the kitchen in the first place?........And apparently the cook can’t read.............
Frank: Inchon, Korea, 1950. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging
hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting
thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of
prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The Use date was three weeks
past, but I was arrogant, I was brash, I thought if I used just the right
spices, cooked it long enough...
Kramer: What happened?
Frank: I went too far. I over seasoned it. Men were keeling over all around
me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming. I sent sixteen of my own men
to the latrines that night. They were just boys.
Kramer: Frank, you were a boy too. And it was war. It was a crazy time for
everyone.
Frank: Tell that to Bobby Colby. All that kid wanted to do was go home. Well
he went home alright, with a crater in his colon the size of a cutlet. Had to
sit him on a cork the eighteen-hour flight home!
I wonder of this was the problem?.......
It used to be every table in Asia had a bottle of Aji no moto. Now its powdered rust remover...
Maybe because they have the exact same effective/useful life expectancy, but Americans insist on tacking on 6 extra miserable years in a nursing home?
Recycling is a good thing. It helps fight glowbull warming!.............
“And apparently the cook can’t read”
Maybe it was written in Engrish!
Don’t be so ronery!.............
No more ponytails for me!
The mother load !
There’s a difference between recycled and “used.”
Think about it the next time your drink from a recycled cup at starbucks!
They thought it was MSG.
Think about it, just where would one go to retrieve enough “used condoms” to make a product that was sold all over the world? The hair bands might be made out of factory rejects that, instead of being disposed of, are recycled into a useful product............
If that recycled Starbucks cup was made in China - I’m going to be thinking about it all right.
It comes in 10 & 20 kg bags also!...........
I’m not sure a factory that makes condoms in China would actually have any “rejects” - I don’t have a lot of faith in their “quality control” departments. With all of the other crap coming out of there - why would they care about a flawed condom?
hrm. Perhaps this is why Wal-Mart is pushing all suppliers to be ISO-9001 certed
Just a skosh, if you please...
“rust remover was added to the pot”
Does the same cook put Naval Jelly on the toast?
Why do you think there are so many Chinese?...............
Still beats the soy sauce story. I’ll never ever eat soy sauce again.
Maybe the “S#!t-Ona-Shingle” was really S#!t...............
I’m almost afraid to ask - what’s the soy sauce story?
Hey, buddy! Hadn’t seen ya in a while!
What soy sauce story?........or should I ask?......
made out of hair collected from barbershops
Amino acids are used to make soy sauce and one of the places to find amino acids is in human hair. Human hair that was swept up in barber shops and hospitals. Turns out that there were all kinds of things being swept up along with it including various medical wastes.
Yummy
“No soup for you!” LOL
OMG - I’m going to the bathroom now. Can you get soy sauce made in the USA?
Some folks don’t count
Yes. Kikkoman is made in Wisconsin.
It says: “Guaranteed to be 47% genuine garlic. As for the rest of it... you’re on your own.”
:-)
My husband and I were in Shanghai a couple of years ago. Our last evening there we were treated to a cruise on the river and then had a meal on a boat overlooking the river. I don't know what was in the food but, within a few minutes of finishing the meal, I was having mild asthma symptoms. It developed into bronchitis that lasted for a few weeks.
Maybe they don’t realize they’re supposed to be miserable. Are you doing your part, to convince them to die faster?
You probably breathed in some polluted, infected water mist from the river, into you lungs. China’s rivers are notoriously polluted with human waste..............
“No soup for you!”
You make me sad. I’ve been craving some soy sauce and donkey soup.
MSG causes shortness of breath for my son. It doesn’t seem to affect me since I was raised on the stuff.
....”when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt”.....
Ah so!....those wacky Chinese!...always up for a good joke!
Dang it, there you go again, using logic and thinking things out rationally! You must be a Republican.
Love it.
Very classy response, bayb. not.
Medical science extends your life at the end, when you're hairless, tired, bent and wise.
Liberalism extends your life as an adolescent, when you're pretty, fit, virile, and stupid.
Made-a in-a China.
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